[PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process

When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits
then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never
be recycled.

In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the
probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances.

Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index 309d59658e5f..355d57970ba3 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
-#include <linux/kprobes.h>
 
 #include <asm/cpu.h>
 #include <asm/delay.h>
@@ -738,13 +737,6 @@ void
 exit_thread (void)
 {
 
-        /*
-         * Remove function-return probe instances associated with this task
-         * and put them back on the free list. Do not insert an exit probe for
-         * this function, it will be disabled by kprobe_flush_task if you do.
-         */
-        kprobe_flush_task(current);
-
         ia64_drop_fpu(current);
 #ifdef CONFIG_PERFMON
        /* if needed, stop monitoring and flush state to perfmon context */